Ornatrix is priced at $499, the update is free for those who purchased the software in the past 6 months. Discounts are available for those who own a previous license of Ornatrix for 3DS Max. A free demo version is available for download. Watch a new features video on Vimeo and read a detailed list of changes on Ephere’s website.

I totally understand your concerns about buying plugins for a rental software but what options do you have when you want to stay within 3ds Max? Renting ALL the plugins you need? I think this makes it even worse. With buying plugins, you can reduce renting to the main software only (if you are not using tP).

Good tool. But WHY I must to pay if 3d max very costly and fully useless in standart pacage.
In Houdini you have All this in ONE package without need to buy other tools.
Without plugins 3d max completely dead.

I miss something? 3dsmax from the very beginning has been all about plugins. This can be good and bad, but has been always like that. Not only for FX, but for any other industry you have a huge amount of plugins available. Cons? Obviously you need to buy it apart, but the good part is that you get developers focused in a specific tools. Today AD is the bad and Houdini is all love. I can understand some of the points, but for example Patrick is saying Houdini has everything in one package. I will agree out of the box… Read more »

I know that 3ds Max has been all about plugins. As you said, it is better to have external (plugin) developers specialized in certain fields than AD who would possibly never catch up with the speed of development.

My comment was more about how ppl will feel about buying plugins with an implied perpetual license for a product that will only be available for rent. The analogy for me is buying a cool new stereo for a rented car.

At least max has a gazilion plugins and scripts – try working in Maya. You quickly find that the built in tools are not enough for professional work (ie. fluids, Bitfrost ;)), but you have maybe 1% of the plugins available for 3ds Max :/ Autodesk really needs to shape up or lower the prices – remember that Houdini is unbelievably expensive so you get what you pay for :/

You can get Houdini Indie -which has almost everything – for $199 year, but limited to HD resolution and $100000 income generated.You can get even plugins like Redshift and Arnold. Yeah i get the irony but it is only 1 plugin if you want super faster renders. For Max you need a dozen probably.

Actually HD res for film/television and most professional work is not enough 🙁 I’m not talking about 4K but you want to be able to reframe in post, add camera shake, camera pans or zooms – it doesn’t cost that much in render time but really speeds things up in comp. Limiting yourself to HD hurts more than you think. We started off with Houdini Indie and switched to full after 6 months :/

This Hair/fur plugin looks great
3ds max is a good 3d app, i’ve been using it since 1999.
for me, it’s just the management’s goal of going 100% rental and deciding that punishing people who want to remain on subs that i have an issue with.

Isn’t that just the point? If everyone is on a rental WHY would anyone develop these sort of fantastic plug-ins – AD could just appropriate the high-value appeal features as part of their next “release” leaving developers high and dry.

Anonymous… why remain anonymous? Anyways, you can use the name you want. I bet you understand the problem here but don’t want to accept you understand it. Of course, the problem is renting, but as I said MANY MANY times, the problem is with companies that offer rental only solutions, they are hijacking your work/art, meaning you cannot access it without paying them. Another thing is that Houdini is not as expensive, more or less the same that Maya or Max used to cost, the expensive part is the yearly upgrade but hey… you own the software, you don’t need… Read more »